Railway Pier, North Queensferry is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1996. Pier.

Railway Pier, North Queensferry

WRENN ID
carved-outpost-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 November 1996
Type
Pier
OS grid reference
NT 128 802
Coordinates
56.00722, -3.39936
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Pier in North Queensferry, possibly designed by Thomas Bouch in 1877, features a long jetty and pier-head with an eastern slip that was extended around 1935. The structure is built from large squared concrete blocks arranged in courses, with hammer-dressed sandstone coping. The surfaces include sett and concrete, and there are steel buttresses along the lower slipway. Steel mooring bollards are present on both the lower and upper jetties, and there is sloping masonry to the west that accommodates ferry moorings. The entire structure is partially covered in concrete render and tarmac. A square raised signal cabin, which is partly derelict, is located on the upper level. The goods yard pier features sloping coursed masonry and random rubble with a tarmac surface. There is also an associated timber and steel square disembarkation pier offshore to the east, although the gangway is now missing.

Local climate

Railway Pier, North Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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